Last year, on this forum, I posted a link on an inexpensive BeeVac you can make by using a 5 Gal. bucket shop vac. The February issue of BeeCulture magazine came out yesterday and they had an article on my vac. The article on how to make it is on page 62 and 63. I hope it helps out people who want one. Thank you BeeCulture magazine for publishing the vacuum design. rick@okbees.comwww.okbees.com

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Congratulations, it is always nice to be published. Did you get paid for it? I have been fortunate enough to write some articles for specialized hobby stuff and been paid for it. That is really cool....not much money, just the token.

Yelp, I looked at it a while back and have been planning on building one eventually. Do ya wanta a Word file with some nice big pictures? :)

okbees, how has it worked as far as bee mortality goes? Does the bucket vac seem to have enough suction to add an extension to the vacuum hose?

Ed

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I have used two hose lengths of extension and had to increase the suction..but, I have not seen an increase in any bee mortality by increasing the suction. Be sure and not forget the piece of carpet on the 90 degree angle going into the top of the vacuum. Thanks on the word file....receive a PDF yesterday from a Beek, so I think I am good. Hope it works for you, like it has for us. A note on this, is that there are others out there that work as well or maybe better, but this style is very functional and inexpensive to make.

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I like Robo's vac, but I don't have the equipment set up to build it, one day maybe. I can build your design. Your vac is about the easiest and least expensive to build that I've seen and it is also apparently a good functional design. Nice job!!!

Ed

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www.beeweather.comAmerican blood spilled to protect the freedom and peace of people all over the world. 320,000 USA casualties in WWI, 1,076,000 USA casualties in WWII, 128,000 USA casualties in the Korean War, 211,000 casualties in the Vietnam "conflict", 57,000 USA casualties in "War on Terror". Benghazi, Libya, 13 USA casualties. These figures don't include 70,000 MIA. But, the leaders of one political party of the United States of America continue to make the statement..."What difference does it make?".

"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."..."The press is our chief ideological weapon." - Nikita Khrushchev

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You can cut the 90 off of the hose, but on that model of vac the hose then wouldn't fit securely in the intake of the shop vac.

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